“Weather today was beautiful, flat calm, and glassy,” said the report from Royal Polaris June 17. “We found 2 school of Bluefin the first of which we landed 29 Bluefin in the 22 to 32 pound range. This was a good school and was stacked under the boat when a school of 5 pound Yellowtail found us and make it impossible to fish any longer. Luckily about an hour later we found another school and we caught 28 more in the same size range. By noon we made the decision to head south as action in the area was quite slow.”

“Today we had one of those classic offshore type fishing days where one stop can change the entire day. We spent our early morning at full cruise and arrived in the grounds around 10 am. With gorgeous weather on our side, we all had high hopes for our day as we slowed to trolling speed and began looking around. But unfortunately despite the near perfect conditions, the tuna would not cooperate. We scoured the ocean searching with both with our sonar as well as every set of binoculars onboard and still turned up nothing.

“Then just as it was really starting to look bleak, things changed in our favor. It started out slow with a couple of short stops, one for 4 Bluefin then another for 9. Shortly after that we got on the school that made our day. Captain Aaron found a beefer sonar school that marched up our chumline right to the corner, crashing on every sardine tossed over the side. After the first round of mayhem the school settled in and from 5 pm all the way through dark we picked away at nice sized 20-30 lb bluefin with a handful of 50-60lb fish mixed in.

“As the day progressed our weather slowly kicked up from no wind and glassy seas all the way up to 15 knots and choppy. Our forecast shows another increase in weather late tomorrow afternoon, so our plan is to stay offshore for tomorrow and try to catch a few more tuna before the weather chases us out of here.”